Monday, 19 January 2015

Lino Printing & Lino health and safety

Lino Printing 

Lino printing is a reductive printing method. 

Equipment: 

   Lino block, inking surface- plastic Board, lino cutting tools and cutting block- to ensure safe cutting, roller for inking,dry roller, spoon, or hand for burnishing, tracing paper, pencils and marker pens, to transfer the image to the lino,albion press and packing, soap, lay lino block face down onto the paper you are printing onto and burnish using a dry roller

Relief Ink v Block Ink 

Relief ink is a time worth process but looks better then the block ink on the other hand Block ink drys quickly which is a downside to this ink also requires a lot of ink. Water-based- is inexpensive but dries quickly, Oil-based- is more costly but produces better quality prints.

Health & Safety: 

You must cut away from your body as this can cause injury if you cut towards your body, return each lino cutter when finished also lino scalpels, never leave tools lying around, heat lino prints before cutting as this makes it softer and easier to cut.

Health and safety when printing:


 Protective clothing and apron is advised and you may wish to ware barrier cream and/or protective gloves to prevent skin contact with inks or cleaning materials.

Remember:
You are cutting the areas you DO NOT want to print!

 To clean equipment use a liquid soap & water, allow to dry thoroughly before packing away equipment.


J.Weston Lewis is a contemporary artist, I like his work because it stands out due to the colours that contrast each other. His work looks like it has been done using the computer which makes it stand out.




Handout from Jenny -  lino handout pdf.docx






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